comfort cafe birthday

This is a card I have made for my mom's birthday next week.  Card base is SU Summer Starfruit, and the Comfort Cafe DSP.  The sentiment is SU Beautiful Birthday.  The mini curly label is the new sale-a-bration stamp and matching punch.  Thanks for looking.

Seize the Birthday #9

This week at Seize the Birthday it is a feminine card.  The Sponsor this month is Uniko Studio and Beverly has kindly donated a prize of stamps each week in March for the winner, so worth joining in the challenge.

The card base is Stampin Up (subtles collection), and the matting papers are Pink Petticoat new colour collection(sweet apricot and ocean breeze), and senitment from the Happy Birthday range.  Image is Stampin Up from Sweet Summer collection. Have a good weekend. x

wonderful mum

What a beautiful Spring day today - hope you have all enjoyed it.  I have made my Mother's Day card for my wonderful mum.
I have used a Sizzix embossing folder, Baja Breeze SU cardstock, various circle dies, and the sentiment is one from Pink Petticoat.  A bit of glamour dust, a heart charm and some bling adds the finishing touches.
As the circle dies use up some of my snippets, I shall be entering this card into the Snippets playground.

sweet birthday - STB #7

Another girlie card for the Seize the Birthday challenge 7.  Great makes from the team this week.

The image, papers and sentiment are from Pink Petticoat (paper is from His and Her valentine range), and this is the sketch for this week.

As the papers are snippets, I shall run over to Pixie's Crafty Workshop snippet playground.  Join in with both if you can. Have fun x.

It'a all about the accessories

I feel really pleased with myself this morning, I have cleaned the oven (yuk) - not wonderfully clean, just two notches up on the de-coked scale, lol.  And I have put the finishing touches to this card.  

The image and papers are from Pink Petticoat (Lola Rose and Springtime).  The 'celebrate' is also from PP (Happy Birthday;s). Metallic thread, bag charm and a bit of bling to finish it off.  Enjoy your day. x 

Pixie's Crafty Workshop snippet challenge #60

Just finished off a card for the Snippet's Playground this week.

I have used SU in-colour card for the base and Comfort Cafe DSP for the design of the card.  The snippets I used for the flower which is a Bigshot die.  Love the new brads from the Spring/Summer SU catalogue, and I just happened to have a self-adhesive pearl the right size to fit in the middle.  Sentiment is from Pink Petticoat. Thanks for looking, and have a good week. x

Hedgie Birthday - STB #6

Happy Saturday everyone.  I am entering into Seize the Birthday challenge 6 (masculine card this week).

I have used my newly purchased e-bay find of Penny Black 'For You' stamp, and my new papers which I won recently from a Quick Cards entry - Paper Cellar 'Celebrations'.  I am really pleased with both items.  The little sentiment is a SU salebration stamp set Pretty Petites.

Thanks for looking.  Have a good weekend. x

Snippet Playground challenge 59

Over to play in the playground this week at Pixie's Crafty Workshop.  This card, apart from the card base is made up of snippets from SU new in-colours and Comfort Cafe DSP, along with some metallic thread and charm.  Thanks for looking x

For You - Seize the Birthday #5

Lovely sketch this week and wonderful inspiration from the design team members of  Seize the Birthday (feminine card this week).

Daffodil yellow backing paper from Pink Petticoat Spring Collection, and the blue floral from a freebie paper pack 'Lilly Bimble' (Quick Cards mag). Sentiment is a SU stamp coloured in markers.  Ribbon from Lidl (5 metres for 99p - a bargain!).  Please check out the challenge blog, and thanks for looking. x

Snippets playground #58

I used this week's Clean and Simple sketch 226 as the inspiration for this card, just turned the sketch around.  I have used snippets of SU design papers, some paper piercing and SU Greenhouse Garden stamp for the flowers.  Hope someone has got a bonfire in Di's snippet playground - its a bit chilly around here!  Have fun x

valentine gift box

I saw a Youtube video for a 10cm square pizza gift box, and I thought I would have a go.  This is how it came out, and inside are some yummy Love Hearts Squashies.  Link for instructions here. Have fun!, and thanks to 'Shonz' for the share.

The sentiment die cut is a Sizzix die.

Less Is More and Seize the Birthday

Happy 2nd Birthday to Less Is More!  This week the challenge is to use Kraft and Kreme, and the sponsor is the lovely lady from Pink Petticoat.  Well, haven't played along for a while, but as I have been playing with the PP kraft and neutrals collections I thought I would join in.  I used the Seize the Birthday sketch as inspiration, and this week it is for those pesky men cards.

As Less is More is a clean and simple style I have used scoring and paper piercing for the central panel on the card to give a cleaner look.

I printed onto white cardstock the biscotti colour from the natural neutrals collection, and the image was a digi stamp from TeddyBo printed onto vintage cream.  The kraft card is kraft paper 3 from the organics kraft collection.  Font is 2peas squish. Thanks for looking, and have a good week. x

Valentine

I was looking through my new Quick Cards mag at the card school, which was to put a mini envelope topper onto your cards - template and sample cards by Julie Gibbs.  Then I was blog hopping and saw this sketch on Try Stampin' on Tuesday 

then this card came together

I have used paper collection from Pink Petticoat called Old Fashioned Girl (half price), and finished off with metallic thread and a heart charm.  I was going to enter this card into the challenge at Try Stampin' on Tuesday, and realised that I have not actually stamped, the sentiment in the mini envelope is a digi sentiment from the PP collection!  Ah, well ... another time.  Thanks for looking. x
Edit:  I am entering this card into the Snippets playground as the mini envelope is a snippet from a previous make.  Thanks for the nudge Di. xx

Seize the Birthday #3 - Girlie card

Another challenge has quickly come around for Seize the Birthday, challenge 3 already!  This week is a new sketch for a feminine card.  I have used a Mo Manning image and papers from Pink Petticoat, Spring collection.   I love the sanded solid colours in this collection, so it allows me to use a coloured insert to match the card, just because I can!  Have a good weekend everyone. x

Seize the Birthday #2 Male card

Just in time to play at Seize the Birthday using this sketch - and this week it is for the all important cards for men.  This is my take on the sketch.  I have used Pink Petticoat Kraft paper download for the base card, and SU design papers and Need for Speed stamp.  Thanks for looking.

New home

My eldest son is moving out to his first new home with his girlfriend this week, *sob* and this is the card I have made using Nitwit papers and embellishments, Sunshine and Laughter.  The mat and house are mounted onto dimensionals.  The house is a sizzix die cut which I have had for ages and not had a reason to use before.  Ah, well, I'll go and help with the packing now.  Have a good day! x

playing with papers

I have been playing with some free digi papers and embellishments from a collection of Nitwit papers called Gratitude, a CD rom which I had free from a magazine a couple of weeks ago.  I used a recent sketch from Sketch Saturday #241.  A great sketch for this week, and I will see if I can post a card before Mr. Linky closes, lol!  Have fun in the snow, and stay safe. xx

Seize the Birthday - Challenge #1

Hi there, this is my card for the new challenge blog Seize the Birthday.  It is only for birthday cards, but there is a wicked twist.  One week the sketch is to be used for a female card, and the following week the same sketch is to be used for a male card.  Just the job for getting a stash of those pesky male cards don't you think?!  My card is made using all SU products.  Please check out the new blog, as there is a fantastic design team, and great creations.  Thanks for looking. xx

Freshly Made Sketches - too late!

Hi there,  I have been trying to upload photos to my blog for two days, but have had problems.  I can't blame blogger, I think it's just my lack of computing skills, lol.  This card was for the FMS sketch 67 which you can find here.  I have used Stampin' Up stampset, and used rose red and soft suede inks.  A sneek peek  of the inside too.  Thanks for looking.

Happy New Year in 2013

Hi there everyone.  I hope you all had a lovely Christmas, and are getting ready for the start of 2013.
Not much work on the crafting front as I have not blogged for more than a month!  As soon as the christmas tree has been taken down from my crafting desk I can get back to business.

I have been having a peek at some of the blogs out there, and I came across Lizy's new Stampin' Up blog.  Good luck in your new venture Lizy (the owner of Lizy's house of cards http://lizyshouseofcards.blogspot.co.uk/. ) You can find here blog here http://creatinwithstampinup.blogspot.co.uk/.  Please take a look and consider becoming a follower - she has candy up for grabs (£15 of free Stampin' Up goodies) - you can browse the catalogue on her blog.

Happy New Year everyone, enjoy your celebrations.

Lynn x